Motivational Quotes

Leadership

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

- Maurois, Andre

Best Quotes about Leadership

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Lombardi, Vince

Men are lead by trifles.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

Daniel Akst

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Parker, Dorothy

Every ruler is harsh whose laws are new.

Aeschylus

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Marden, Orison Swett

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Carlyle, Thomas

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Barker, Joel A.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Lee Iacocca

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The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves.

Saying, Zen

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Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Newcomb, Arthur W.

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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

Liu Shao-Ch'I

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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Lao-Tzu

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Leadership is action, not position.

Mcgannon, Donald H.

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Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Ledru-Rollin, Alexandre

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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Batten, Joe

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Those who can command themselves command others.

Hazlitt, William

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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Field, Marshall

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The person who has no enemies has no followers.

Piatt, Don

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Rohn, Jim

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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

Tutu, Bishop Desmond

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An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Proverb

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Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis.

The EMS Manager Newsletter

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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Milton, John

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Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.

Motto

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Leaders are readers.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.

Lao-Tzu

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Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Proverb, German

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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says lets, GO!

Selfridge, H. Gordon

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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Peters, Thomas J.

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Meir, Golda

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Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Tead, Orway

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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.

Adelman, Ken

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When placed in command -- take charge.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -- to the end at all costs.

Seymour, Harold J.

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No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Kennedy, John F.

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Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Walton, Sam

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Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

Syrus, Publilius

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The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

Ewing, Russell H.

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Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Justinian

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Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

George Goethals